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Insurance industry eyeing potential victories as overhaul efforts progress

For the insurance industry, the health system overhaul currently being considered in Congress so far would create a boon of new customers without the competitive challenge of a government-run option -- both elements that are viewed as victories.

28 Sep 2009

Mercy Memorial implements CDW's disaster recovery solution to increase reliability of critical clinical applications

CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation and a leading provider of technology products and services to healthcare organizations, today announced that Mercy Memorial Hospital of Monroe, Mich., launched an extensive server virtualization and disaster recovery solution acquired from CDW Healthcare.

28 Sep 2009

Payment of healthcare through technology will ease the stress on overburdened healthcare workers

With all the noise being made about healthcare reform the past few months, focusing on everything from public option vs. insurance agencies and what will and will not be covered, what's slowly coming into focus is that it is not that healthcare is necessarily in need of an overhaul, but the way in which Americans pay for it.

28 Sep 2009

Today's opinions and editorials

Taxing high-cost insurance plans to fund health care reform is a bad idea. In fact, it could threaten the medical insurance plans of middle-class workers who obtain coverage from their employers (Gerald W. McEntee, 9/28).

28 Sep 2009

MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index reveals growth in pharmaceutical brandjacking for popular drug brands

MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the company’s latest Brandjacking Index®, which finds a parallel online system of pharmaceutical supply and demand fueled by continued growth in listings for pharmaceuticals on business-to-business (B2B) exchange sites as well as increased traffic to illicit pharmacies. The report also reveals a growth in pharmaceutical brandjacking for popular drug brands.

28 Sep 2009

Nuance launches eScription version 9 for for computer aided medical transcription

Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced the availability of version 9 of its eScription on-demand platform for computer aided medical transcription (CAMT), a solution used by healthcare organizations to increase productivity and save costs associated with medical transcription (MT).

28 Sep 2009

Private health system takes root in British Columbia

The Los Angeles Times reports that consumers in Canada are "beginning to flirt with private-sector medicine."

28 Sep 2009

Excelsior's SwabCap launched at the 23rd Association for Vascular Access conference

Excelsior Medical, one of the leading manufacturers of pre-filled catheter flush syringes and syringe pump systems, announced that it has launched a major new product: the SwabCap™ Luer Access Valve Disinfection Cap.

28 Sep 2009

First edition: September 28, 2009

A look at today's headlines reveals that specific issues regarding the health overhaul effort continue to get significant attention and trigger debate.

28 Sep 2009

New scalable solutions for targeted re-sequencing studies from febit holding and Life Technologies

febit holding GmbH and Life Technologies Corporation today announced that they have entered into a strategic co-marketing agreement to provide a new, scalable solution for researchers conducting targeted re-sequencing studies. In addition, febit will expand its Genomic Services Facility at Heidelberg by adding several Applied Biosystems SOLiD™ high-throughput sequencing systems and real-time PCR systems.

28 Sep 2009

MedPro and Advanced MedTech to develop new passive needlestick injury prevention technologies

MedPro Safety Products, Inc. (OTCBB: MPSP), a pioneer in the development and marketing of passive needlestick injury prevention technology, entered into an exclusive agreement with Advanced MedTech (AMT). AMT is wholly owned by Hooman Asbgahi, the inventor of MedPro’s phlebotomy products, marketed by Greiner Bio-One GmbH under its VACUETTE® brand as the VACUETTE® PREMIUM Safety Needle System and VACUETTE® PREMIUM Blood Collection Set.

28 Sep 2009

Safety profiles of JANUVIA and JANUMET drugs established through clinical development program

Merck has thoroughly reviewed the safety data for sitagliptin, and sitagliptin was not associated with an increase in the incidence of pancreatitis in preclinical studies or in clinical trials of up to two years in duration with more than 6,000 patients.

28 Sep 2009

Increment in 2010 PET reimbursement may increase the demand for Cardiac PET imaging

Positron Corporation, a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, predicts a significant rise in demand for Cardiac PET in 2010 with a proposed cut in SPECT reimbursement of 46% and an increase in PET reimbursement of 22%, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

28 Sep 2009

Presentations on Inovio Biomedical's electroporation-delivered DNA vaccines

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today it will make multiple presentations at the Vaccine 3rd Global Congress being held in Singapore October 4th – 6th.

28 Sep 2009

$1.3 million fund awarded to WPI for ongoing life sciences research

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park have received a total of $1.3 million in new awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund ongoing research in several areas of the life sciences, including a study of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, work aimed at using adult stem cells to repair damaged hearts, and a project that seeks to create engineered blood vessels.

28 Sep 2009

Fourth-quarter and full year fiscal 2009 results announced

United American Healthcare Corporation (Nasdaq: UAHC) today announced financial results for the Company's fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended June 30, 2009.

28 Sep 2009

Pelosi tries to unite divided Democratic factions in House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is facing a difficult task in the House: herding the different Democratic factions to fashion a single health care bill.

28 Sep 2009

Health inequalities linked to socioeconomic status

Prostate cancer patients of low socioeconomic status are more likely to die than patients with higher incomes. That is the finding of a new study from Swiss researchers to be published in the December 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

28 Sep 2009

H1N1 vaccine for limited supply only to people at highest risk

The novel H1N1 virus (Swine Flu Virus) is expected to complicate the 2009/2010 flu season. The H1N1 vaccine has been approved for release but availability and access is still unknown. Seasonal influenza vaccine (flu shot) is available and the CDC recommends vaccination over the next few months.

28 Sep 2009

Progress on the Baucus Bill is in the eye of the beholder

The New York Times: "Senate Democrats on Friday preserved the guts of their proposal to reinvent the health care system, but Republicans scored political points on several issues, like the effects of the bill on older Americans. The Democrats beat back Republican attacks on the legislation as the Senate Finance Committee deferred some of the most contentious issues to next week."

28 Sep 2009

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Insurance industry eyeing potential victories as overhaul efforts progress

Mercy Memorial implements CDW's disaster recovery solution to increase reliability of critical clinical applications

Payment of healthcare through technology will ease the stress on overburdened healthcare workers

Today's opinions and editorials

MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index reveals growth in pharmaceutical brandjacking for popular drug brands

Nuance launches eScription version 9 for for computer aided medical transcription

Private health system takes root in British Columbia

Excelsior's SwabCap launched at the 23rd Association for Vascular Access conference

First edition: September 28, 2009

New scalable solutions for targeted re-sequencing studies from febit holding and Life Technologies

MedPro and Advanced MedTech to develop new passive needlestick injury prevention technologies

Safety profiles of JANUVIA and JANUMET drugs established through clinical development program

Increment in 2010 PET reimbursement may increase the demand for Cardiac PET imaging

Presentations on Inovio Biomedical's electroporation-delivered DNA vaccines

$1.3 million fund awarded to WPI for ongoing life sciences research

Fourth-quarter and full year fiscal 2009 results announced

Pelosi tries to unite divided Democratic factions in House

Health inequalities linked to socioeconomic status

H1N1 vaccine for limited supply only to people at highest risk

Progress on the Baucus Bill is in the eye of the beholder

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Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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